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What the heck is the whole paragraph on PerpSweating doing there--especially with all the \"shredding the constitution\" nonsense? At no point during Columbo\'s \"asking the perp for help\" game is the perp officially under interrogation. They are free to refuse to answer. None of their answers is going to be admitted into evidence. None of Columbo\'s tactics are coercive. The only sense of coercion that anyone feels is the desire to prove their own innocence by giving Columbo explanations of the evidence he sees that point away from themselves as a suspect. They do this entirely voluntarily. The writer of the paragraph goes on to state, first, that Columbo\'s interrogations are more realistic than the typical PerpSweating type you see on most police procedurals, but then, second, that such flattering and accommodating interrogations have been ruled unconstitutional in case law. Not only is this irrelevant to {{Series/Columbo}}, it seems to exclude any sort of questioning of any suspect whatsoever. I would delete the whole paragraph myself, but I don\'t want to run afoul of any rules I don\'t know about regarding messing with trope descriptions (although I suspect that this paragraph itself is a form of trope description vandalism by someone other than the original trope writer).
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Removing the trope implies that everybody likes the movie. Despite the fact that it's a critically divided movie at best. Can't pretend that everybody liked the film.
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Removing the trope implies that everybody likes the movie. Despite the fact that it\'s a critically divided movie at best. Can\'t pretend that everybody liked the film. I\'d be happy to reword it, though. If it weren\'t locked.
